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Vice. 144 4 regard will be had to any Tender in which the Price it aot be inserted in Words• at length, or that shall not be 4a 7red t o t h e Board before haff-past Two -oclieck on the uh ri 3-ronday n e x t, th e 14th. instant, nor unless the P e r son . Mai s' the Tender, or some PC770,1 on his behalf, attends, . 2 • • • when taped f9r. VEAST INDIA HOUSE, Jan. 17, 1818. , I I F.: COURT a DIRECTORS of tlle UNIT ! . COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENGLAND the EAST INDIES, do hereby giv e N o ti ce , aria-i they will be ready to. receive Proposals in Writing, on 9ef ure tVedne'sdav, the 21st instant ; f rom the Owners of a °f the burthen of 1200 Tons and upwards ; Builder's .Nuremetit, which has n o t p er f orme d more than s i x voyages I,l"he Company's service, spi-eifying the rate - Of freight per UFt at whicli they may let such Ship, for one ° Yte to China direct,'in the Company's Regular Service. the Tenders, with the words, • " Ship Tender,'; on the t ! t er, to he severally sealed up, and left with the Secretary, 4q before Twelve o'Clock at Noon, on the said 21st just rond which hour no Tender will be received. J DART, Assistant Secretary. ,:rbs,t.i;.Part.iculars of the Terms, 'and; Cohditions. upon which will .b.e engaged for the Company's Service„may he 1 n? !ipplication to Mr. John Moriee, Clerk t0 . t.1t.5 Com si,tiee 01 Slapping, on or after Friday next, the 9th instant. AMICABLE SOCIETY, for INSURANCE of LIVES, Serjeant's Inn; Fleet-street, London, Incorporated by Queen Anne, 1706. p r OE DIRECTORS b:ive now to offer to .the 13,, attention of the Public, Tattles of Rates, which have vien„lately t!ompleted, for the INSURANCE of LIVES, at ..Vittus Agts from 8 to 72; either for the whole Life ;;;11-e number of Years ; the contingency of one Person sur tw„ftg another ;" or for Ahe joint continuance of the Lives of e s. er . siiiis, t.lie Insurance' payable' on the Death of either. I „,. ai acmes in this Office are effected, in.certatn cases, at a it!attion of aearly 20 per Cent. and on the whole on terms TnY f avoUrable to the In • _ , iti'l,'lnsances may be effected from 2001. to 5,0001. and every It t,ittl'tt;:listtratice., however short the period of contianance,, triti ng , t. a participation in the pecuni a ry advantaOs ac tiaioriu;',,the Corp o r a ti on . Th ese a d van t ages are Wh4ily ap 4stioe,„ielt,t the 'benefit of the Insured, in proporttor/ to the 14 " vq . licf,;,."ciA Insurance, as eircutuStances arise in the year In th e ' i:" . 0 heath happens. t 'f, th es „ tst Year, Insurapces on 87 Shares became payable : wi t , f. , having Maile Eleven Yearly Payments, or more,. ba tin g additions, amonnting to 91 per Cent.; Five Shares , 4 • 1 11 !, C , made Nine Yearly Payments, 68 per Cent.; One Share si tiar i t l ', n i',tde Seven ' Yearly' Payments, , 59 per Cent.; One :tad, „..rinng made Four, and It•ive Shares having made One, 14 41 V rayment, 43 per Cent. in addition to the Sums origi 4Lsmsured• Pre t r acts of the Chattert and Bye4;aws,with . Tables of the. ti„rzints, ma! b e h a d ' a t the tlllice, where • attemiance . is %Ifro„i Nine till Three ti'Ci"ch% By Or - de; - (4 . il;er - C - o - u . rt . of Directors, PENSANI, Registrar. i r ROYAL HOSPITAL, CHELSEA, JAN. 8, 1 8I 4 • ILN pi! ty 14 nee ihe Act of the 55th year I , t4 l's Present Majesty, by which it is enacted that.the•Out ,,,,Z_s•!m,rs-of this Hospital ihall in future he• paid quarterly, atice, instead of. half-yearly, Notice is hereby giten, by 4,i t j of the Itight HOtiourable the• Lords and others, Coin 41f7liters for Managing the affairs of the said Hospital, that Out-Pensioners thereof, residing in London, Z~ p the District of the Bill, o f Mortality, are required to 41,1", r pe!ionally and regimentally,• with their Instructions kfia!:ertificates of Admission, at the Secretary'S Office in the v4B:llsptal, on their respective days, and in their differqiit 14 1 . 1 ,", accordi ng . to their several Rates o f P ens i on, as t i n- VcCritijmed ; when attendance will be given front Nine th e the Morning' until Three theAftrnoon, for th' Z tit of a Quaiter of a Icar ,. s Pension in advanc e , of March next. - Th e n , On MONDAY, the 12th o f J anuar y. ,VtL e ' 4,l ;iers at sd. per (lay, and those at (id. to the end d Regiments. • On TUESDAY, the lath of January. tb . a t i l r ',"(' at. - Gat add. f rom the Ro y al Garrison Battalion, and re it,-itnetits ay. and -Corpsi those at Sd. and all th e Un per d WEijN • ESDAY, the 14th of Jatmary. 4 0th k 7 a t ~d. per say, from the Ist F.ot G uar d s t o . th e ineliiive. • . (3,1 THURSDAY, the 15th of January. idtc,f,,Jidii•ip,er,dit, Corps the ands Foot, and all the . re- CMS and ; also those at 10d. per On FRIDAY, the 16th .ofJaituary. Nt; gse a t is. per day, frton the different Regiments of Ca; with the I st mid 2d Regiments of Foot Guards. th„. . On SA TURDAY, the 17th of January. githe'tli..tlto t Is. per . - day, from, the 3d Regiment of Foot Guards, the nufuhered Regiments at thatltate: 'PL,, . 0 n NIONDAY, th e 19th of January. 41!IiiI'' '';et,') it Is. per day,' from the 'Royal Garri son B a tt a li on , C !t e nittitting Regiments and C orps ; an d a l s o those " lii per ay. • d •• 4 4Y114 On TUESDAY Ise 20th of JanUary. , • .at Is. tAd , . . 2d. Is. 2-4 dls $ d per . an . le r hnse Ott WEDNESDAY, the '2lst of January. at i td 1 yid .• 4-td sd. 1- - sd Gd.. s. . s. S. • I s . • ti;il . Is. is. Bd. Is. std, Is. 9d. Is. 9id. and Per • • 'Chr.fitte ~.On THURSDAY, the 22d of January. Old. 'per day and upwards, with the Private It• who 'receive Aunnities • in lieu of Pensions from ket'r s lltreVal 2d Regiments of Foot Guards ; as al's() the Pen ' 4 lit t , tli• several Regiments and Cor p s, who have been h 44 ;wenn t Bi* Ine'ss . • k 4 t i l s „ it 4 . . th " Ordered awl directel, that all the Out-Pensioners lit:t1 1 4 1. It) the said Hospital do pay particular attention to ie4f 1). tlctions, which they are required o produce at the ,„„:tl'atetit, by which they are ordered to t ransinitto the Amy,,7(ieneral of his Majesty's Land Forces London, r i , t r) (4,,!l4vits as therttin prescribed, on or immediately after 11,tc,4"terilav, without which their Names wiii not be 4 6 (. .itr, lay-Lists for the stitsequent Quarter, • and ~rcl."t, afterwards 'to change th eir Place of Abode,, as Affidavits, ls without unavoidable , necessity, !f) tog m the sae. p'q “-s h a ,.!r to talie Notice, that i n consegnence o f var i ous 1 14 ,!1ui„ 4 !lig' liter' committed by 'Pensioners the Receipt um ti st a t t M that all - Pe?sioners so o ff ending ( the I.l,l luttt 4s and forfeit all benefit. arising !ish meta. Itl t —" • ARD NERVE, S ecre t ary an d Registrar. R. GUTHRIE will commence his SPRING COURSE of LECTURES on SURGERY, on MON DAY, the 19th inst. at the' .ROYAL WESTMINSTER IN 'FRMARY, for DISEASES of the EYE, Marylelione-street, Piccadilly. Medical Officers of the Navy, the Army, and the Ordnance, will be admitted gratuitously, on obtaining the re commendation of the Head of their respective Departments, ,which must be preknted to Mr. O. between the hours of Two anti Four, Berkeley-street, Berkley-square. THE REV. DR. BURNEY. • AT a•AIEETING of the CLUB, consisting of GENTLEMEN educated under the late Rev. Dr. 13URNEY;holden on Wednesday,'January 7th, at the FREE MASONS' TAVERN, the Dr. KAYE, blaster of Christ's College, Cambridge,, and Regius Professor of Di viniti in the University„ 10 the Chair,several Resol4tions were passed expressive of their intention to erect a Btist and Tablet , to .the' ',Minim , of their old. Master, in Westminster Abbey. Any of his former scholars, who are desirous of fortbeiing the object of, these Resolutions, will be supplied with Copies of theni on application to the Secretary, Edward _foss, Esq.43U, Essex-street, Stralid. . . . -TO THE 'PUBLIC. 4th MARCH NEXT, ONE HUNDRED CAPITALS, THREE PRIZES OF L. 30,000! ! ! And• Every Prize in Sterling Money. TBISH, "the Contractor for the present . 'STATE LOTTERY, having submitted the Scheme, witlrevery particular, copied from the Government Gazette, in all the Newspapers, and which may be had at any Lottery Office in the Kingdom, respectfully.solicits attention to the following 3 ....Prizes of - ,C. 90,030 3 • 10 ig .500 14 ha , 300 3,590 of L. 200, L.lOO, L. 60, ix.e. Ike ALL STERLING MONEY. In addition to the Scheme, and exclusive of the Money paid by Government, Three Blanks will receive TWELVE HMSO Old PORT WINE. Each of the Holders Of the First-drawn Blank, on each Day of Drawing-, may immediately seled, from the Stock of any Wine Merchant they ptsase, Four Pipes of the very best old Port Wine; and in proportion for shares, on credit for One Thousand Years, or longer, if required. To enumerate all the Capital Prizes sold by BISH S Corn hill a nd Charing-Cross, London, and by hiS Agents, within the last few Years, would requir e several folio volumes, In the last Lottery one he sold 2,241, a Prize of L. 20,000 3,64 . 8, a Prize of L. 20,000 . . 4,343, a I'rize of L.20,00p And various other Capitals, ALL IN SHARES. Begins 402- MARCH, When the First-drawn Prize will hare L. 5,000 more. The last Lottery that contained Three Prizes of 30,000, BISH sold them all !!! A NEV PATENT HAT, at only 1 IMPORTANT SAVING. EORGE FRANKS and Co. have to offer to the Public a SILK HAT on a BEAVER I}ODY, com bining every requisite a Hat•ought to possess; it is superior in appearance to the finest and most expensive Beaver, is equally light, and will Out wear two of them, and is of a better shape, which it retains to th e last ; it w ill never c h ange its colour, which is of the most beautiful black, if worn for )ears; no weather will injure themi they being NVATER PROOF, and will repair several times at a trifling expeuce, and every time appear equal to new, and are decidedly supe rior to any Hats ever offered to public notice; the attainment of which has been attended with great expence ' —labonr, and persOnal attention of GEORGE FRANKS and CO. Mane incturers, 11"Ctlington House, corner of Redcross-sirect Barbican, DUILdOn• Merchants, Dealers, and the Trade, who wish for superior Hats, will find it their • interest in applying as above. No unpaidletters received.—Nt4 in any way concerned with a Retail House . in Beech..street, name of Franks. MEDICINE. FOR RHEUMATISMS, COLDS, AND, DISORDERS :OF THE STOMACH AND BOWELS. JAMES'S ANALEPTIC PILLS restored to their primitive eicellence, from the original and only Recipe, under pr. James's,, hand, delivered by . him to Mr. Newbery, when he'purchased,- and had a regular Assign ; went of, half the Property. The 'negligent _Manner in which the Analeptic Pills h ave been compOunded of late years; is notorious; and numerous complaints . were received from old purchasers, not only of the inequality of their sizes, and-their alteration from a light to a dark colour,. but also of their being lees efficacious than heretofore.. Mr. Newbery frequently remonstrated ag a in s t suc h mis mauagement ; but in , vain. He had no alrernativ e ; f or h e was• bound by covenants riot to sell any Analeptic Pills hnt those prepared by Dr. James and his family,• so long as they chose to supply his demands. They thought fit; however, try refuse that supplyin January last; and an attempt has been made by the Grandson of the Inventor.to usurp the whole business, under. thi false title of . 4 !..Sole . Prupvietor.";--Mr. Neu bery is new therefore absolved from hii engagements,and 'enabled to render to the public the Genuine Medicine in its must perfect state, which he pledges himself to be identically the Analeptic Pills as prepared by Dr. James in hislife-time, - and endued _with all those virtues which established their reputation. They are sold by F. Newbery • and Sons, at the Original Warehouses for Dr. James's Powder, No. 4.5, St. Paul's, London ; and 29, Dame-street, Dublin; and by their Agent, ?Ir. Sanger, No. 150, Oxford -street, and all respectable \Tenders in Town and Cciuntry : but observe that Mr. New, bery's Name is engraved in all the.starops. . • LOCK AND SURGICAL DISPENSARY. His Royal Highness the - DUKE,OIYORK, President. SUR6EON—My. Kiernan,. Member of the Royal College, London. GovEnNons—Earl of Egremont, Earl of Leitrim, Hon. Cpl. J. Barry, M.P.' John Latooche, M. P. TilE Royal and Noble Patrons of the above INSTITUTION, for the exclusive Treatment of VE NEREAL COMPLAINTS, and their damgerous consequences, in-order to insure the benefits"that- have resulted from it, se lected Mr.'KIERNAN as its Surgeon, (standing high on the list of the Royal College)- from having directed his chief at tention to those diseases. It is the misfortune of Patients under such complaints, to be too often the dirks of illite rate Pretenders, who practise on the credulity by imposing titles and specious, promises... Against this class (of late so numerous and daring), Mr. Kiernan conceives it a" part of his official duty to caution the Public, by pointing to the List of the Royal College, published in rebi Huy 1816, as the only sure guide, and that no assertion of. Persons assuming such titles, i and publicly advertising th em' without being sanc tioned by this List, are to be c re dited. Theunnual reports Of the Lock Dispensary will prove, that some of Ili , : most dangerous cases of Strictutes„ Debility, and other suppoSed incurable affections of the Generative Organs, have been here radically and successfully tr e at e d ; f ac t s iich require no hackneyed testimony of affidavits to prove, but the most -re spectable Medical evidence. ti Mr. KIERNAN may be consulted as usual, by both Sexes, at his house, 21, Lower Charlottestreet, Bedford-square, where Letters from Town and Country are, to be addressed, and the necessary Advice and - Medicine will be given, 'or sent, to any part of the United Kingdom. Just published, price 4s. Second Edition, Practical Ob servations on the above Diseases, by F. Kiernan; and may be had at N0..174, Fleet-street, Ns, 20, Patertioste,Prtiw, and 10, Crown-court, Soho. PUBLICATIONS. This Day was published, The Seventh Edition, price Gd. or 3s. a dozen, or ,40s. a hundred, A DEFENCE of the CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY, agai n th e Objections of the Rey. JOSIAH THOMAS, A.M. Archdeacon of Bath. • • •By the Rev. DANIEL WILSON, A.M. Minister of St. John's Chapel, 'Bedford-row. Published by George Wilson, Successor to R. Bickerstaff, Corner of Essex-street; Strand:- Sold also by J. Hatehard, Piccadilly; L. B. Seeley, Fleet-street; and the Booksellers of Bath and Bristol. • • STATE FRJALS. This Day was publigieci,-clusely printed in double columns, royal Bro. V o lume the 43d (or the Third of a New Series), price 11. 1 ls.. 6d. COMPLETE COLLECTION of STATE 17. TRIALS and PROCEEDINGS for HIGH TREASON and other Crimes and Misdemeanors, from the earliest Period tp tho Yiiar 17A3, with Notes anti other Illustrations:— Cowl:410'1g T:..B.;',HOWE.OL, F.lt S. F. 5.4. and conti nued from the Year 1783 tu the present Time, by THOMAS JONES HOWELL, Esq. 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Also, A Key to Wanostrocht's French Gtarnmar. By the late J. Cuvellier. Third Edition, price 3s. 6th bound. , - • FRAUD PREVENTED. TO counteract the many al tempts that are (lady. Made to impose on the unwary a Spurious Composition instead of the GEN VINE BLACKING prepared 11 DAY and MARTIN, they have adopted a new Label, in which their Signature and Address 97, High 'Holborn, so conspicuously placed 'in the centre of the Label, that they trust an attention to this, and the difference of the Type, which is unlike all Letter-press, will enable Purchase; s at once to detect the Imposition. The REAL JAPAN BLACKING, made and sold whole sale by DAY and MARTIN, 97, High Holborn, and k,e tailed by the 'principal Grocers, Druggists, Booksellers, Iron mongers, Perfumers, Boot-makers, &c. in the United King dom, in Bottles at 6d and I s . 6d. each. LITERARY REVIEW. SHAKSPEARE AND HIS TIMES: including the . Biogra phy of that Port ; Criticisms on his Genius ;_a New Chro nology of his Plays; a Disquisition "on the Object of his Sonnets; and a History of the NI -antlers, Customs, &c. &c: of his Age. By NATIIAN DRAKE, M. D. Author of " Li terat y Houis," . and of "Essays on Periodical Literature." Two Vols. 4to. 1817. CADELL and DAVIES. At the fifth chapter, Dr. DRAKE begins his view of rural life in the time of SHAKSPEARE ; a view as amusing as it is curious. He begins with Country Squires, and their houses, of which the following very curious description is copied from Harrison's Account of -England, published in HOLLINSHED :—" The old timber mansions," the historian says, " were now covered with the finest plaster; which, besides the delectable whitenesse of the stuffe itselfe, is laied on so even and" so smoothlie ; as 'nothing, in my judg ment, can be done with more exactnesse." He continues—" Of old time, our countrie houses, instead of glasse, did use much lattise, and that made either of wicker, or fine rifts of oke, in checkerwise. I read that some of the better sort, in and before the time of the Saxons, did make panels of borne instead of glasse, and fix them in wooden calmes. But as borne is now quite laied downe in everie place, so our lattises are also growne into lesse use, because glasse is come to be so plentifull, .and within a eerie little so good, .cheape, if not better than the other. The wale of our houses on the inner sides in like sort be either hanged with tapesterie, arras worke, or painted cloths, ‘vherein eithe.r diverse histories, -or hearties, beasts, knots, and such • like, are stained, or else they are seeled ,with oke of our owne, or wainscot brought hither out of the east countries, whereby the roomes are not a little commanded (Qu..commended), made warme, and much more close than otherwise they would - be. \As for stooves, we have , not hitherto used them greatlie, yet doo l hey now begin to be m a d e i n diverse houses of the gentrie."—p. 73. The particulars of the hospitality and festivity of (hose times are then detailed, and illustrolea by a judicious selection from orsryautho ri,ties..Theties. The•whole, indeed, is little - more than a tissue, or what the Italians call a pasticciopof quotations ; but the art with which they are in troduced and connected is very striking. The following, description of a Country Pedant Will shew how the AuthOr brings his matter to. bear upon the writings of his principals abject, Ski Air., • " From the description.. of.the character - .of a country CleriCal Tutor, it is an easy: transitiOn to- that of 'the Rural_ Pedagogue or Schoolmaster; a personage. of .not less colisequende in the dayi of ELIZABETH, than at the preSent . period.. Ire (ineptly combined, indeed, in the sixteenth • cen tury, the reputation of• a conjuror with that of. a schoolmaster, arid accordingly, in. the comedy of Errors; Pinch, in the dramatis persona, is de scribed as .a schoolmaster and a conjuror ; and the following not very amiable portrait of his person ,is given towards the conclusion .of the play • They brmight one Pinch, a hungry,.lean4aced.villain, A mere anatomy, a mountebank; A thread-bare juggler, and 4 fortune•teller, A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, A living dead man : this pernicious slave, For;ooth, took on him as a conjuror. "BEN JONkIN also alludes to this union of occv... pations, when he says, 1 would have ne'er cunning schoolmaster in England, 1 mean a cun ning man as a schoolmaster ; that is, a conjuror.' " A less formidable figure of a schoolmaster has been given us by SHAKSPEARE, under the cha racter of Holofernes, in. Love's Labour Lost, where he has drawn a full-length caricature . of the 'too frequent pedantry of this profession. Yet Ho fernes, though he speak a teash of languages at once; is wt. deficient either in' ability or discrimi nation ;Im ridicules, with much good sense and htimour, the literary fops of his 'day, the rackets of orthography ; and his conversation is (lit scribed by his friend, Sir Nathaniel,, the cu rate, as possessing all the requisites to perfec tion. • Sir, your reasons at (linnet' have been sharp ,and sententious, pleasant without scorri-, lity, witty wi , hotit affection [i.e. affectation], nu. thiciotis without impudency, learned without opi nion [i. e. prejudice], and strange without heresy.' It is very ilillicult, reit:talks Dr. JOHNSON, to add any thing to this charade'. of the schoolmaster's table talk; arid perhaps, all the precepts of CAS. TIGLIONE will scarcely be found to eomprehend'a rule for conversation so justly ,delineated, so widely dilated,and so nicely limited."—p. 95. In this way does the author go through the va rious ranks of rural society, selecfing, fro:n poet's as well as prose-writers, whatever is calculated to illustrate the• subject,. and enliien Ahe picture. After speaking of the favourite beverage of spiced ale, warmed by a toast, and roasted crab apples throWn in, " When toasted crabs biss in the bowl," he proceeds to the custom of telling :ales of amuse ment, while round the bowl did trot " " The Winter's Tale 'of .SHAKSPEARE." he says, " owes its title to this . custom, of which' an example is placed before us in the first Scene of the -second Act—' Herm. Come Sir, pray . you sit by us, And tell's a tale. Mani. Merry or sad, sbalt'be ? Hem. As merry as you will, And BURTON, the'tirst edition of whose Anatinny of Melancholy was published in 1607, enumerates, among the ordinary reereations'of *inter," merry tales of errant knights, queens, lovers, ladies, giants, dwarfs, thieves, cheaters, witches, fayries, goblins, friars, &c. which some delight to hear, some to tell, all at•e well pleased WiTh and he remarks shortly afterwards, '' µ hO - 1 three or, four good companions meet, they tell -old italics by the fire-side, or the sun, as old folks usually do, remembering afresh and with 'pleasure }indent ;natter, and such like accidents which hap pened in their younger years." MILTON 8181, in" his Allegro, printed in 1645, gives a conspicuous station " To the spicy not-brown ale, With stories told of many a feat." and adds, "'Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd to sleep."—p. 107. This chapter is continued to p. 122, and is fol lowed by ch. vi. on the manners, customs, holi days, and. festivals of the country. In this part, though he traverses nearly the same ground, in many instances, with that which has been so well delineated in the new and much-improved edition ofßßAND'S.Popular Antiquiti e s (i n two v0 1 5 ..4 t0 ) and sometimes with BRACY'S Claris Calendaria, yet, by the authors . quoted, and the manner-of introducing them, Dr. DRAKE has contrived to give his account a very atttactive degree of no velty. The Hesperides .of ROBERT HERRICK are 'often resorted to for apposite and pleasing illus. trationsi nor is any author neglected who can -throw light upon Che subjects. • The .account of the May Games, Morrice Dancers, Maid Ma rian, &c. is particularly good, and well.digested; containing some particulars not usually adverted to by those who have attempted tb eluCidate these antiquated festivities. This chapter extends to p. 208, and the subject•=is continued through the seventh, eighth, and ninth chapters ; occupying, on the whole, a very large proportion of this am ple volume. (7'o be continued.) % I.